Project Reports

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The Stock Market and Unemployment: The Cross-Section Volatility Model

Ever since the evolvement of modern macroeconomics, theories without foundation in the Keynesian view, such as Real Business Cycle (RBC) theories, have aimed for recognition.The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the Cross-Section Volatility model (CSV), a RBC-model developed by Laclair Brainard and David Cutler (1993) based on US data, holds and demonstrates …

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INVESTING IN AN EMERGING MARKET: Systematic risk and fund performance in Russian stock market

In this paper, we study systematic risk factors that influence returns in the Russian stock market and investigate how Swedish Russia and Eastern Europe funds have performed and managed their portfolio holdings in an emerging market environment. We find that the Russian stock markets exposure to systematic risk in other emerging markets is high and …

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